Simulated bevel vanity mirror



as. w l lbb Patented June 13, 1939 UNITED STATES Search R01 PATENTOFFICE SIIWULATED BEVEL VANITY MIRROR James L. Richter, Far Rockaway, N.Y., and Henry Goldblum, Paterson, N. J.

1 Claim.

The object of the present invention is to provide an inexpensive smallmirror having the appearance of a bevelled-edge mirror such as used inladies handbagsrvanity cases, etc., and to provide a process formanufacturing the mirrors rapidly and at very low cost.

This application is a substitution for abandoned application Serial No.114,120, filed December 14, 1936.

The invention will be described with reference to the accompanyingdrawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a plan view of one of the mirrors.

Figure 2 is a plan view of a sheet of glass following the steps ofetching and silvering, and preliminary to cutting into strips andindividual simulated-bevel units, showing in dotted lines the directionof cut.

Figure 3 is a plan view of one of the cut strips.

Figure 4 is a fragmentary view in plan of the etching screen.

Figure 5 is a fragmentary section looking in the direction of thearrows, on the line 5-5, Figure 2.

In the production of vanity mirrors for ladies purses and the like,sections of the plate and shock glass of the desired form, as, forexample, rectangular, are customarily applied to a grinding wheel toeffect bevelling ofthe margins, and the faces opposite thebevellediacaaresyered. In some cases the silvering precedes thebevelling operation. This process involves relatively substantialcost'inasmuchas the labor involved in bevelling is frequqnl llk equal tothe total cost of the unit,

We have discovered that it is possible to produce the bevel efiectwithout any bevelling operation whatever and to start not from the frontface of the glass sheet but from the rear face thereof, and in a processwhich requires simple inexpensive steps.

In our process we take a large sheet of glass and produce the beveleffect on all of a considerable number of units later to be separatedfrom each other and in such manner that bevel-like margins of all of theunits will be in straight line and hence regular and without rejects. Tothis end, we place upon the rear face of a large sheet of glass aselected screen such as that illustrated in Figure 4 at I, the screenhaving opaque panels at 2 bounded on all four margins by a relativelynarrow edging of mesh at 3, the panels being otherwise separated byrelatively wide screen bands, as at 4, these bands being double thewidth of the mesh edging at 3. The sheet of glass may be placed on asuitable support having vertically extending guides (not shown) and thescreen placed upon the glass and held in proper registry therewith bysaid guides. Thereupon, we place upon will appear generally like aground glass surface.

The next step is to take the glass plate with its etched bands throughthe steps of a well known silvering operation by which a'mirroredsurface is applied to the glass, the silver also being deposited uponthe etched bands. By reason of the etching of the glass at the bandareas, these areas will be given a reduced reflective power in ac-'cordance with the degree of etching. We prefer that the etching be verylight, as, for example, that produced by the application of the paste tothe glass face for 3-4 minutes.

The final step is to protect the mirrored surface by a backing ofshellac, paint, or other quick drying coating. The front face of thelarge glass will then appear as in Figure 2.

The next step is to longitudinally cut the glass sheet, first intostrips such as shown in Figure 3, by lines of cut each exactly in thecenter of a wide band 4, thus dividing the band in half. When this isdone, each strip will be severed into sections by cutting through theremaining wide band centrally thereof on the dotted lines indicated atc. The cut edges may be hacked and this will complete the article asshown in Figure 1. The finished article is such that only by closeinspection would it be discovered that the front face thereof was notactually bevelled, because the article will have the effect of abevelled mirror. Two of the articles may be cemented together back toback to form a double mirror.

Having described our invention, what we claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is as follows:

A method of making vanity mirrors, which comprises forming upon a sheetof glass longitudinally extending and transversely intersecting bands ofetching, silverlng the sheet of glass upon the etched bands and theunetched areas bounded thereby, and severing the sheet into strips bylines of cut centrally of the etched bands, and cutting the strips intoindividual units by lines of cut directed centrally of the etched bandsintermediate the successive unetched areas.

JAMES L. RICHTER. HENRY GOLDBLUM.

